Gender Variant Movies

20 Centimeters, 2005. A narcoleptic Transgender woman who yearns to become a transsexual dreams up elaborate musical numbers in which she’s the star.

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, 2006. The tragic story of a young Transgender teen and her discovery of living life as a woman.

Almost Myself, 2007. (Documentary). The story of several Transwomen, including the story of a gay man who transitioned, and transitioned back.

Be Like Others, 2008. (Documentary) A generation of young Iranian Transwomen choosing to undergo sex change surgery.

By Hook or By Crook, 2001. (Movie) Shy, a small-town butch with a nagging messiah complex, heads to the big city to immerse herself in a life of crime. She embarks on a journey through the skid-row streets of San Francisco and learn the true meaning of poise under pressure and the importance of friendship.

Boy I Am, 2006. The experiences of three young transitioning Transmen in New York City.

Beautiful Boxer, 2004. Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman.

Beautiful Daughters, 2006. A group of Transwomen’s production of the first all-Transgender production of “The Vagina Monologues.”

Born in the Wrong Body: Girls Will Be Boys, 2008. (Documentary) Three biological females prepare for gender reassignment surgery.

Breakfast on Pluto , 2006. In the 1970′s, an transgender orphan girl comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London to look for her mother and because her transgender nature is beyond the town’s understanding.

Cruel and Unusual, 2006. (Documentary) An examination of Transgender women in men’s prisons.

Gender Rebel, 2006. (Documentary) Three biological females who reject gender to occupy a point that lies between male and female.

Gendernauts, 1999. (Documentary) An exploration of the worlds and thoughts of several female to male Transgender individuals.

Gender Trouble, 2002. Four inter-sex women tell their stories about how medicine and society have treated the inter-sexed.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 2001. A Transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band and tells her story.